Waterlight ランプ by Jiahua Zhang, Nitesh Reddy and Kejun Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 照明製品・器具デザイン Competition Category.
銅照明· 2021
Waterlight ランプ
by Jiahua Zhang, Nitesh Reddy and Kejun Li
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 照明 Category
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About Waterlight ランプ
Waterlightは、水道の蛇口から着想を得たデスクトップランプです。操作レバーを上下に動かすと光の明るさが変化し、左右に動かすと色温度を調整できます。球体の内部には水平方向と垂直方向に1つずつ、計2つのポテンショメータが配置されており、入力電圧を変化させることでこれらの効果を生み出します。光はベース部に配置されたLEDセルによって生成されます。ヘッド部分はブロンズ、上部の蓋は天然大理石、外殻はガラスで作られています。底部の蓋にはワイヤレス充電用の回路が内蔵されているため、ランプを部屋から部屋へと持ち運ぶことができます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Waterlight ランプは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Waterlight ランプは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Waterlight ランプは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Waterlight generates a unique and amazing experience of light control. Turning the control bar up and down changes the intensity of brightness. Turning it from left to right adjusts the temperature of light.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions: Width 80mm x Depth 80 mm x Height 300 mm.
Technical Properties: The potentiometer is the bridge between the action from the user and the effect of the lamp. It changes the brightness and temperature of the lamp by modifying the input voltage which is controlled by the user through the control bar. - Tags
- Light, Aesthetic, Water, Faucet, Lamp, Desktop
- Production Technology
- The head is fixed with two potentiometers inside the sphere, one is horizontal and the other is vertical. Thus, when the user is turning the control bar up and down, the horizontal potentiometer changes the voltage of the electricity to adjust the brightness of the light; when the user is rolling the control bar left and right, the vertical potentiometer changes the voltage of the electricity to modify the temperature of the light.
The light is provided by the LED cells on a base.
For charging, the bottom lid is integrated with a circuit for wireless charging when it is put on the independent wireless charger that is connected to plugs with wire. The lamp can be taken away after charging (e.g. the lamp is charged in the living room when the user is reading there and taken to the bedroom when the user wants to go there).
The head is made of high-quality bronze, the top lid is made of natural marble. And the outer shell is made of glass. - Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge was to build the functional potentiometer and circuit to make this design into reality. In the beginning, it was really hard to link the control action and the change of the brightness and temperature of the light in a proper way. The change always went too much or too little. Finally, we found the balance and created a perfect control feeling.
- Research
- We would like to create an amazing new interaction between the user and the lamp. After a lot of sketches and brainstorming, we came up with this idea and found out that there was not anything like it in the market. So we did five versions of 1:1 scale prototypes to find the best proportion of the shape, enable the potentiometer working, and find the manufacturing process of the marble. It turned out that we need a horizontal and a vertical potentiometer to control the voltage and hence the brightness and temperature of the light. And we found out that the marble can be made by CNC.
- Inspiration
- Waterlight was inspired by the water faucet which adjusts the volume of water by being turned up and down, and controls the temperature of water by being turned left and right. It enables users to adjust light like using a water faucet, creating a similar feeling between light control and water control, and bringing about more insights into life.
- Project Duration
- This project started in October 2019 and finished in January 2020 in Milan.
- Operation Flow
- Turning the control bar up and down changes the intensity of brightness. Turning it from left to right adjusts the temperature of light.
- Team Members
- Nitesh Reddy N
Kejun Li
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